In the drafts for the 40k Championships, Exterminatus, Highlander, and Team Tournament, there is exists terminology that Apocalypse War Zone supplements cannot be used.

Even though the War Zone: Armageddon is part of the main Apocalypse rulebook, you meant to ban that too, yes? That means nobody can take Reavers, Warhounds, etc. It is a War Zone supplement, after all.

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealously, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war, minus the shooting." - George Orwell

With the exception of the exterminatus, the Warhound and Reaver do not meet the event level restrictions for LoW. They are intended to be allowed in Exterminatus. We'll get an updated version out there to address.

So, disregarding the point size limits, will you unban everything or just armageddon? Out of curiosity, why/why not? Can't be much worse in the other books.

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealously, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war, minus the shooting." - George Orwell

Most of the apocalypse formations reference rules that are only available in Appocalypse such as vehicle formations, psychic choirs ect. These rules are not supported in the main 40k rules, for this reason the Appoc formations are not allowed.

Well obviously formations are not kosher in a non-Apoc game; I was wondering more on just individual units that can be found sprinkled in the books (if there are any).

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealously, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war, minus the shooting." - George Orwell

Damnos has the Necron Pylon, Damocles has the Obsidian Knight, Pandorax has the Great Brass Scorpion, Tower of Skulls, Plaguereaper, Traitor's Bane, and Marauder Bomber.

Some people might want to use those.

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealously, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war, minus the shooting." - George Orwell

This was recently updated to the rules for most of the 40K tournaments:

• Codices, Codex Supplements and Warhammer 40K Campaign Supplements that are released prior to February 19th,2015 will be allowed in this event. Apocalypse War Zone supplements, Apocalypse Formations, Forge World army listsand material from the Horus Heresy books WILL NOT be allowed in this event.

• Imperial Armour units (Forge World) are allowed in this event and are considered to be part of the relevant Codex orfaction, however due to the scarce nature of these units; each unit is considered unique (0-1) and may only be takenonce per player. In ALL cases, only the most currently published rules for any particular unit will be allowed. Acomplete list of allowable units and rules locations can be found in the AdeptiCon 2015 Warhammer 40K ApprovedImperial Armour Units document. Note, some of the allowable units draw their most recent rules from theApocalypse rulebook, these are noted exceptions to the general exclusion of the book.

Nurglecron wrote:Are Forgeworld Space Marine chapters considered usable for this tournament? The rules say that Forgeworld Army Lists are not allowed, but I was unclear as to how Chapter Tactics fit in there.

If the tournament allows FW units, then the FW Chapter tactics are allowed.

Because in some cases, some of the units you've listed above have since had newer rules published by Forgeworld, such as the Marauder Bomber & the Necron Pylon (the latest IA Apocalypse) and the Great Brass Scorpion (IA13).

Wow, that's awesome, thanks! Still, it does mean that some units are unavailable.

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealously, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war, minus the shooting." - George Orwell

- Necron Pylon's rules were out in August for IAA, September for Warzone: Damnos, so the Warzone is most recent. 420 vs 515 points is quite a difference!- The Marauder Bomber's rules were out in August for IAA, November for Warzone: Pandorax, so the Warzone is most recent. It received a massive nerf (and slight points drop).- Obsidian Knight, Tower of Skulls, Plaguereaper, and Traitor's Bane are still Warzones, which you caught.

Note, some of the allowable units draw their most recent rules from theApocalypse rulebook, these are noted exceptions to the general exclusion of the book.

Would this then mean that those from the Warzone books are allowed?

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealously, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war, minus the shooting." - George Orwell

seahawk wrote:- Necron Pylon's rules were out in August for IAA, September for Warzone: Damnos, so the Warzone is most recent. 420 vs 515 points is quite a difference!- The Marauder Bomber's rules were out in August for IAA, November for Warzone: Pandorax, so the Warzone is most recent. It received a massive nerf (and slight points drop).- Obsidian Knight, Tower of Skulls, Plaguereaper, and Traitor's Bane are still Warzones, which you caught.

Note, some of the allowable units draw their most recent rules from theApocalypse rulebook, these are noted exceptions to the general exclusion of the book.

Would this then mean that those from the Warzone books are allowed?

Sorry, I was a bit off on those two (the Marauder & Pylon). In those cases, there was clearly some sort of disconnect between the GW main studio & Forgeworld, as those two sets of rules came out within a couple months and are totally different, as you point out. We made the judgement call and decided that in this particular case, the rules in the Apocalypse book are for Apocalypse games, and the ones from Forgeworld are what we are going to use in tournaments as the 'standard 40k' rules for those units.

So for both the Marauder and the Pylon, we are sticking with Imperial Armour Apocalypse (v2013).

And yes, I believe the point Chris is trying to get across is that you are allowed to take single units from the Apocalypse books (including the Warzone books) as long as they are listed on that IA unit index page, and don't break any of the other particular event rules. You are just not allowed to take any of the Apocalypse formations that encompass more than one unit.